Treasury Department reaches out to bloggers

For the first time, the U.S. Treasury Department invited about 20 bloggers to an outreach session. The two-hour meeting, which was held on background, took place Nov. 2. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner participated in the sit-down. The meeting “shows that the Obama administration is working very hard on outreach to a lot of different media sources,” Tyler Cowen, an economics professor at George Mason University who has written at the Marginal Revolution blog for six years, told The New Yo…